ORE - IKON - BIRMINGHAM

When a gig is advertised as a evening of sound performance delving into the region's musical heritage featuring a drone doom tuba group called ORE you just know its going to be good, and it didn't disapoint. This latest offering from Capsule showed how they continue to operate outside of the normal sphere of music promotion, even by their own standards. Whilst I have had a gripe at the time Six Organs of Admittance were put on at the Town Hall because of the stuffy nature and "ego massaging lets give ourselves a pat on the back vibe" it was cool to be in that environment with potentially a slightly broader audience demographic than normal, certainly a larger audience in terms of number. It was Tunng that went and spoiled it for everyone. The venue of the Ikon was brilliant for the event, it turned what called have been a really ominous, dark, dirge into an almost transcendent mantra performance of drones, particularly in the "circle-pit" immersion of Lash Frenzy's performance. Whilst these videos can do almost nothing to recreate what it was to be at that gig they still show the coolest musical event in Birmingham on that night. As Lash Frenzy said, musical performance should be without focus, representation but about the here and now, the present, performances become immersive, participatory events....SWEET!